Anna Barley
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If I will update or delete my old article, Does it affect SEO?
Delete and update old article
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Vaibhav Adlakha
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Was that article ranking on first page of search engine? I mean updating will surely affect seo in a positive way, but deleting, it depends on a lot of factors.
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Updating the article and title may improve the ranking, as it may improve the onpage SEO, while deleting the content will worsen the ranking (as there's no longer an article to rank the keyword for).
contentcreators
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Either option will affect ranking, I would update rather than delete.
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Both will affect SEO. If you change the page by itself title you may change rankings completely within days.
xSHIFTYx
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Deleting an old article will (if that article ranked) obviously lose its ranks.
What is your primary goal with deleting the post? You have a number of options you can utilise.
Update to improve the content, key words, related words and LSI keywords to help improve your rank.
You could merge that article with another of similar nature and have a much larger and broader post to improve the ranks of both the original articles. (You will need to 301 one to the other)
If the article has no or low ranks and you simply want to remove it. Delete it and 301 that page to a similar page.
Assess what your primary goal is first. All of these actions can impact your page positively and negatively.
What is your primary goal with deleting the post? You have a number of options you can utilise.
Update to improve the content, key words, related words and LSI keywords to help improve your rank.
You could merge that article with another of similar nature and have a much larger and broader post to improve the ranks of both the original articles. (You will need to 301 one to the other)
If the article has no or low ranks and you simply want to remove it. Delete it and 301 that page to a similar page.
Assess what your primary goal is first. All of these actions can impact your page positively and negatively.
milk_and_cake
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As far as im informed: updating article to be more SEO friendly (length, interlinking, keywords) is good SEO wise.
Deleting it in whole or somehow altering URL of article is bad. mkay!
Deleting it in whole or somehow altering URL of article is bad. mkay!
It depend on the many factors such as depend on posting date. whether it is indexed or not. If it is not indexed if a new article then it's fine, you can delete or edit but if it is indexed then deleting can effect your ranking and updating the contact is fine it can improve your ranking but don't change the title only change the content.
Eduard Berg
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Don't change URL of old article.
Anna Barley
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Okay
RyanCipriano
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It's good to update your old articles once in a while. Google loves this and recommends it
Aty
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That ^^^ would have been my answer.
Anna Barley
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Hello, If I update my old article for example, (Example film ready to release 2019) But that film, not came 2019. But that article ranked on Google 2019.
If I edit the article title, the keyword (2020) and insert more words, My rank will lose?
If I edit the article title, the keyword (2020) and insert more words, My rank will lose?
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alice252293
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I updated my article a week ago. I add mored 400 words then the rank dropped from 1st to 4th. I dont know that's Google Update or just my rank.
Anna Barley
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Did you add new keywords on your article?
Anna Barley
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Did you remove your old keywords?
alice252293
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No I just added more content
Red Hat Cop
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if you have same url then google re crawl the article and update the things but its not a good approach in stable seo sense .in case you delete your post's which are indexed then you get 404 and that is negative for your stability